New CAD/CAM application, seeking testers

[Techne]

This is a new 2D CAD program with integrated toolpath generation. It supports GCode and ShopBot, but for now only a very vanilla form of GCode.

It is an "alpha" level release, meaning it has known bugs and is incomplete, particularly the documentation and help files.

If you enjoy playing with bleading edge stuff, I'd appreciate feedback. Right now I'm looking for comments regarding any problems encountered as opposed to feature requests.

Go to www.5pct.com and then look for the downloads section. There are couple of screenshots too. Will run under Windows 7, should work under Vista and XP.

Thanks,

Joe

[Techne]

For the first few daring souls who download the alpha could you please post a message if you encountered any problems. Thanks,

Joe

[Techne]

A new alpha has been released. This version adds preview of the toolpaths on top of the preview of the part being made.

This is done via multithreading so the toolpaths and part are constantly regenerating as you make changes to the design. By using multiple threads, this does not impact the speed of the user interface while editing the part.

Joe